Abolitionist, lawyer,
United States senator, governor of Ohio, United States secretary of the
treasury, and chief justice of the United States Supreme Court. Correspondence,
memoranda, diaries, speeches, writings, financial and legal papers,
biographical material, and other papers pertaining to Chase's career and
personal life. Topics include Chase's activities as an abolitionist, his law
practice in Cincinnati, membership in the Liberty Party, involvement in
national and state politics as United States senator and governor of Ohio, the
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), events and military operations of the Civil War,
formulation of wartime policy as a member of Abraham Lincoln's cabinet, work as
United States secretary of the treasury on problems of national finance and the
development of a national banking system, his service as chief justice of the
United States Supreme Court, trial and impeachment of Andrew Johnson,
Reconstruction, and creation of a national currency.